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You are killing us with levies and taxes. Please help us. if you dont change your attitude towards local poor and middle class.

Dinah

Yes I do

My neighbour has brought it to my attention that the water meter reader struggled to find and read my meter.....I checked it out and discovered that it's overgrown with weeds and covered with lots of sand ....so where does the reading come from monthly and must I clean out where the meter is in the road......and paying a levy on a pipe for what......why not put acid in the water one time.....you are already slowly killing us.

faghry

Yes I do

they continue ripping us

Mapule

Yes I do

Due to the tough times, I cannot afford even the most basic need such as bread. They need to cut it as I am already paying for water and sewerage

Sahida

Yes I do

I have a blue meter and out water is still switched off despite the change

Louis

Yes I do

You are killing us with levies and taxes. I am going to start campaigning against the DA and CoCT if you dont change your attitude towards local poor and middle class. Watch & learn.

mary

No I do not

Whilst It is inconvenient to not to be able to use more water, I have adapted so well that I cannot fathom why I used so much water before the water shortage. I save so much water nowadays. However, I feel that we still need to be very very careful. The summer is going to have high temperatures again this summer and we are still within the 7 year cycle of dryness.The dam water needs to be conserved otherwise we shall be in the same predicament as last year.

I do not think house owners should pay for water meters as the meters are situated on council property.

Jean

Yes I do

There is a seeming lack of logic and inequality in how COCT is constructing its water scenario. First, please remember that the person who pays your salary is your boss. Your boss is going to speak and you may not like the outcome. Go back to first 6kl free. Stop charging pipe levy. Its extortion. Isn't that why we pay rates? Stop hiding rates increases this way. Be as generous to the lower quantity users as you are to the higher quantity users. It appears that you have benefited from the past water prices and restrictions enough to be able to announce a better cash flow in Parliament. Go back to old water restrictions that stop the washing of cars and watering of gardens.

Ronel

Yes I do

More like extortion. I feel violated by the ridiculously high rates and taxes. Just stop it now.

Patrick

Yes I do

This is a comparison of City of Cape Town bills paid from May 2017. This is the real% increase to me as home owner of 8 Woodmere Street Barrington SunningdaleI would like to know if others in Cape Town have also had huge % increases like thisMay 2017 R916.99 May 2018 1142.70 24.61%June 2017 R941.03 June 2018 1142.24 21.38%July 2017 R941.03 July 2018 1328.83 41.21%August 2017 R763.45 August 2018 1282.61 68.00%September 2017 R826.37 September 2018 1450.83 75.57%October 2017 R853.02 October 2018 1244.33 45.87%November 2017 R844.70 November 2018 1122.70 32.91%December 2017 R873.13 December 2018 1405.03 60.92%January 2018 R815.62 February 2018 R906.47 March 2018 R797.92 April 2018 R972.46

68% 75% and 61% increase year on year is CRIMINAL!!!!!

Busi

Yes I do

Bloody rip-off. The pipes have always been there, why should we have to pay for them now?

Johann

No I do not

It didnt rain enough

Mohammed

Yes I do

The pipes were laid before I was born. Who got the bright idea to come up with a cash cow? Yes the poor exco members need financial balance to be able to pay themselves performance bonuses for collection of extra finance. Maybe a golden handshake for messing up big Time. Kildare Road springs water running into the sea. What a bloody mess. Law unto themselves. DA messed up very well.

faghry

Yes I do

It's a rip off 🙁

Norman and Norma

Yes I do

We are two pensioners who live off one small private pension and we each get a Sassa pension. We own our own house and are responsible for all service charges add to this the increasing food and cost of living expense...we are really struggling then COCT thinks its ok to penalise us with increased charges for matters which COCT should be held responsible ... Our rates, water, refuse, sewerage charges have risen from average in 2017 of R420.00 to R900.00 in 2018. WE USE AVERAGE OF 3kl PER MONTH AND UNDERGO ALL SORTS OF WATER SAVING METHODS...TO WHAT RESULT? ...WE ARE PENALISED WITH FIXED BASIC CHARGE... THIS FOR DOING OUR BIT FOR THE WATER SAVING SITUATION... DROP THE WATER TARIFF AND PIPE LEVY!!!!!

Sandra

Yes I do

I am using brown (water that I have used already) for my toilets and flowers fruit trees etc. Saving lots of water.

Valerie

Yes I do

The water is way over charged in western cape and such high rate of unemployment add more negative Ty on the economy. Water was never s issue here. I feel this rate is do unfair towards pensioners

Ingo

Yes I do

We are already paying a lot of money to the city and things are expensive, so we can't afford to pay this. You drive us out of the city as especially pensioners can not afford more and more levies. Are these levied designed to feed some FAT CATS or to pay for mismanagement .

The pipe levy is unethical as I did not have a say in something installed over 20 years ago.

People who refuse to pay for water suddenly get free water up to 11 Kl. This is absolutely unfair, unethical and borders to daylight robbery.

STOP TAXING AND BLEEDING CITIZENS TO DRYNESS - YOU WILL CREATE A CITIZENS DROUGHT

Godfrey

Yes I do

These new extortionist levies are not only intrinsically punitive in nature but also profoundly discriminatory in the sense that they go counter to the declared intention of turning Cape Town into a modern integrated and inclusive urban space.

Bonani

Yes I do

We are already paying a lot of money to the city and things are expensive, so we can't afford to pay this.

Godfrey

Yes I do

There is no material or commercial justification for these charges whatsoever. Like all municipalities, the primary mission of the City of Cape Town is service provision - not profiteering!

The pipe levy is unethical as I did not have a say in something installed over 20 years ago.

I also believe that the 200 l/ day allocation to all residents be reinstated.

Agents selling water and electricity are an abomination. It just proves the CO CT cannot do the job properly and that someome else charges us an additional fee to do this. This increas the price!!

Fred

Yes I do

The COCT is actually "stealing" from it loyal/ supportive residents. To put a levy on existing piping, done 20 years ago is unethical.

We have gone from free 200 litres per day to the very high price we are paying now. Seemingly some some complexes are still getting the free water.

The other side of the coin is the free water supplied to squatter residences. Just have a look at the number of DSTV dishes in these areas. The same people have their first home somewhere else in the country. This does not reflect poverty!!

Rehana

Yes I do

Cape Townians have responded positively to the water usage challenges. We have made a difference. The high water and related charges are squeezing us to death. The water charges must drop further to give us a breather as the multiple fuel price increase has had a drastic effect on our finances. This is urgent as the long term consequences will be detrimental to the economy of the Western Cape.